Monthly Archives: March 2015

The Beautyof Messi It was my wife, not a football fan, with me on the night, who summed it all up. “Messi is beautiful.” Now,  that the player is not exactly adonis, still less a narcissist, we all know. He is short and scraggly, long-nosed, walks with a stoop, and has a tendency to clear his throat by spitting, or on a bad day, seemingly throwing up. Nor does he set you on fire when he speaks, with his squeeky Rosario accent, far less musical and evocative than that of …

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